Amos barnes



(No Model.)

A. BARNES.

MATCH SAFE.

No. 596,316 Patented Dec. 28, 1897.

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lhvrrnn STATES PATENT rrrcn.

AMOS BARNES, OF DETROIT, MIO HIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES GAMBLE AND JOHN M.BREWER, OF SAME PLACE.

MATCH-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,316, dated December28, 1897.

Application filed March 6, 1897. Serial N0. 626,135. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMOS BARNES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Match-Safes; and I declare thefollowing to be a full,clear, and eXact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the =accompanyingdrawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to match-safes; and it consists in improved meansfor delivering a single match at each operation of the deliveringmechanism of the safe.

'My invent-ion is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a view showing the form ofthe roll for delivering the match.

In the drawings, A is the base, having a concave portion a, on which thematch drops when delivered.

0 is a roll mounted in the sides of the frame. This roll is providedwith a longitudinal groove 0, and is substantially like the roll shownin my prior applications, Serial Nos. 604,398 and 585,867, except thatthe rear wall of the groove 0 is at its maximum height at the center andrecedes toward each end until it reaches the level of the bottom of thegroove This construction is to overcome a difficulty experienced withthe former constructions, in which one end of a match would catch in agroove at the end when the roll would draw the match around at an angleacross the roll. The construction shown herein obviates that difficulty.The roll is also provided forward of the groove with a series of annularribs 0 0 which have their greatest depth immediately above the grooveand recede to the body of the roll, as shown in the drawings.

D is the front of the match-safe, and is pivoted in the frame at d andallowed a slight swinging movement. It is provided at the lower edgewith teeth or fingers, which enter between the annular ribs 0 c on theroll 0 last-named portion comes directly over the 1 roll. This portion 6forms a narrow ledge that will pass under a match as the roll comesback, and in conjunction with the portion 6 will straighten it and leaveit parallel with the roll. The portion 6 forms a wall back of thematches that have dropped onto the roll, and this present device differsin that respect from my prior applications. In the former applicationsthis wall was absent, and the matches were forced back into the body ofthe safe into and against the mass of matches resting therein. Theconstruction of this device .is such that the space between the dragfront D and the wall 6 is an additional chamber or cavity, in which thematches are straightened out and forced into a position parallel to oneanother. When the roll is in its normal position and the safe filledwith matches, a few of the matches drop down over the end of theinclined portion of the bottom between the wall e and the drag front,the matches being approximately parallel. When the roll is operated, oneof the matches drops into the longitudinal groove and is carried forwardand delivered from the safe, while the remaining matches in the spaceover the rollride over the roll and are carried back by the ribs 0 c andthe lower one drops or rolls into the groove, the operation beingpractically the same as in former devices.

What I claim is- 1. In a match -safe, a delivery-roll provided with alongitudinal groove, the rear wall of which is of the maximum height atthe center and receding toward the ends, substantially as described.

2. In a match-safe, the combination of the frame, a roll mounted in theframe provided with a longitudinal groove, an inclined botbottom anddepending wall at the end of the bottom over the roll provided with therightangled edge a, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of twoWitnesses.

ADIOS BARNES.

\Vitnesses:

SAMUEL E. THOMAS, G. M. DAVIS.

